Anton Pavlovich Chekov

1. Leon Tolstoy
Sociologist
Moralize

2. Dostoevsky
Psychologist

3. Stepan Kolesnikoff
Artist

4. Alexandra Pushkin
Poet

5. Maxim Gorky
Revolutionary writer

6. Anton Chekov
Story Teller

7. Nikolai Gogol
He was a Russian story writer and a play writer who influenced later writers.

He was a Ukraine writer. The Ukrainian culture and folklore influenced his writing.
His writing style wads called grotesque or distorted or repulsively ugly.

The Nose
The Overcoat
The diary of a Madman

Born in 1st April 1809

Died in 4th March 1852

We all came under Gogol's undercoat is a saying that come his work overvoat.


Below is about Chekov
Father of short stories.
He was the artist of the mundane.
To escape from reality he choose literature.

He was living at a time when Russia was waking up with outpouring of literature.
His mother probably would have told him many stories.
Talent from our father.
Our soul from our mother.
He failed in Greek.
When he was 16 his father went bankrupt. To avoid jail he fled to Moscow.
He had to support family financially and keep them cheerful by writing letters and stories.
He read lot of fiction.
He read books by philosophers like Schopenhauer.
Busy chasing with older women including one of the wife of his teachers.
He managed to enter Moscow State University.
Within 4 years he got his doctorate.
He achieved all this without any help.
all by himself.
He has come from poverty and he wanted to give something back.
It all came at a cost to himself.
It was his writing which kept him going.
He won the prestigious Pushkin Prize.
Other writers were getting old and Russia needed young blood which Chekov filled.
He wrote a story book Steps while in Ukraine.
Ivanoff became a hugh success.
Painter of reality in his stories.
This was revolutionary at his time.
Everything in the story should have a purpose.
Tidy story telling.
He wrote about all human horrors he observed.
He wanted the authorities to treat criminals humanely.
Human Rights.
Tolstoy fought in Crimean war.
George Orwell wrote poverty in London and Paris.
He moved to a village while practicing medicine he wrote his classics.
He became an atheist.
When his health was failing he moved to Crimea where he met Tolstoy and Gorky.

One of the greatest Russian play writers and a physician.

The Seagull

The Cherry  Orchard.

Uncle Vanya

Three Sisters

Were his classics.

Lady with the dog.

Born 29 January 1860
Died  15 July       1904 aged 44.

He probably died of tuberculosis which he probably acquired during resident work.
He took a neural stand on morality, politics and religion.

In short stories one should focus attention with minimalistic details. In novels one can diverge but not in short stories.
Less is more approach.
Follow intuition.
Telling the Truth
Brutal Honesty
These are escape from reality and philosophy.
Human behaviour in real life.
Wil to Joy
Joy is all temporary.
Happiness is not enduring but a myth.
We anticipate death.
Final Words
He made himself invisible in his stories.
He appears heartless in depicting the reality.


He says, medicine is his lawful wife and writing was his mistress.

He was probably spending all his earning on his big family.
He was down to earth and idealist in his philosophy.